This article at first upset me. Then after thinking about it for a little while, I tried to imagine an analogous scenario where I might actually side with the fbi. I came up with this - if, say, a hundred people buy a set of steak knives from a particular cutlery store, and of those hundred, one person uses one of his/her knives to commit a heinous crime, I probably wouldn't mind if the fbi subpoena'ed the store's credit card receipts for that day (and that day only). While it's not a perfect analogy, it does allow for a different perspective - particularly, at least for me, an objective perspective.

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